Technologies is currently accepting applications and nominations for two Travel Awards to sponsor two PhD students to attend conferences between February 2019 and February 2020. For more information about the awards and how to apply, click here.

Check what our previous winners say:

David Reber: “I was given the opportunity to attend this year's Spring Meeting of the Electrochemical Society in Seattle and was kindly supported by an MDPI Technologies Travel Award. At this large conference, over 2500 abstract were presented, I was able to display my research to a wide audience and meet many fellow researchers. During the session I chaired, I also gave my presentation and the audience of about 50 people was very responsive and many questions were asked after the talk. At my poster, I then spent two hours constantly talking about my project and discussing with peers working on similar subjects. I was able to talk to some of the big players in the field, but also enjoyed discussions with colleagues at an earlier point in their respective careers. I was lucky enough to win the third place poster prize and had a quick chat with several high ranking officials from the ECS. Exposure to such a wide international audience was a highly beneficial career experience and I was able to significantly grow my professional network. Thank you again for supporting me with a Technologies Travel Award.”

Maher Abujelala: "Attending the 20th International Conference on Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) was a fantastic opportunity for me to gain more insight into HCI research. It is one of the largest HCI conferences, with around 1700 participants from 74 countries attending this year's event. The conference spanned 6 days in Las Vegas, Nevada (USA), and it was highly interdisciplinary. As a computer engineering PhD student focusing on the fields of HCI and artificial intelligence, attending the conference really helped me to extend my knowledge and experience in both my research area as well as other interesting areas. 

On my first day at the conference, I had the chance to attend a tutorial session on Social Media Analysis for the Masses. As part of my research, I always deal with analyzing human physiological data and surveys that either we collect in our projects or are collected by other researchers and are publicly available for research purposes. However, I have never had the chance to learn how to collect millions of people’s data from social media and analyze it, but I was able to do that in this tutorial within a few hours.

It was very interesting to attend the various presentations, and I was very delighted to meet researchers from the USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Greece, Germany, Belgium, France, Norway, Austria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India, Pakistan, China, South Korea, Japan, Australia and many other countries, and be able to ask them questions and have discussions with them during the Q&A and coffee sessions. I am very honored to have been able to attend this conference and meet so many experienced and driven individuals. I hope to have the chance to attend this conference again in the future, and I would like to express my gratitude for Technologies Journal for giving me this opportunity."